William Griffin spoke to us about hardware-in-the-loop testing, simulation, terminology, learning complex topics, and books.

We don’t usually expand upon the show title but Wikipedia has a rabbit hole called Evil demon so there you go.

Books mentioned:

Make: Electronic Music from Scratch: A Beginner's Guide to Homegrown Audio Gizmos
CMOS Cookbook
How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!” Adventures of a Curious Character
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
Leadership BS: Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time (though we then talked about a different Jeffrey Pfeffer book: 7 Rules of Power.

William Griffin and Bailey Steinfadt (333) have started Spark Embedded, an embedded software and simulation consultancy.

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Komathi Sundaram spoke with us about her enthusiasm for tests and test automation. We talked about the different joys of testing vs. development, setting up CI servers, and different kinds of tests including unit, hardware-in-the-loop, and simulation. It may sound dry but we had a lot of fun.

Komathi’s site is TheKomSea.com which hosts her blog as well as contact info. She will be speaking on automated hardware in the loop test processes at the Embedded Online Conference.

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